Anglican Church

The story opens with the young Englishwoman Rhoda Ford (the unbeautiful one of two sisters) and her family in the west of Ireland, where her father has an entrepreneurial scheme. They try to come...

Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be...

For the wife of an Anglican clergyman, the content was certainly unexpected. Indeed, as A. G. Stephens has noted: The shock to the Rev. George Cross [her husband] was overwhelming.

The story is of a young girl's development and close relationship with her mother. A High Anglican message is important here, as it was to be in all of ES 's work.

Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle...

This is, as the title implies, a personal defence of the High Anglican position.

JP 's tone is darker here: she portrays Henry as a tyrant and the various power-hungry and quarrelling families (the Seymours and the Howards) as self-serving weaklings. She does not paint Katherine (as in her...

In 1869, the year that Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland , she exclaims, Oh, noble face marked deep with inward strife! / Oh, steadfast eyes, through which thy soul looks out! In this first...

The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent and specifically Presbyterianism , but returns to the Church of England , saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year...

The essay contributes, as critic Laurel Brake has argued, to a continuing debate over gender both within the progressive Westminster itself and in mid-Victorian culture more broadly. This piece has almost nothing to...

This work (fuller title Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, In An Answer to a Pamphlet Entituled, A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty) summarises and defends her career so...

She writes of women's virtues as domestic ones, and the family as the proper province for private women to shine in. Whyman likens her letters, in their aim and scope, to those of Richardson ...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to...

This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell , who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England angel in...